Meet Arlen Williams. He’s a sensible-looking blAAAAUGGH . . .

Pardon. He’s a . . blogger for Conservative website ‘Renew America.’

Arlen Williams is not batcrap crazy. Arlen is not a giant bat-pyramid of bats overstuffed of crazy and crapping continually. Arlen is not mountains of looney-bin rats fancying themselves banana bats and cannon-crapping their nuthouse jammies.

Now there’s a post title. What’s the greatest scandal in modern history, btw? Colonialism? Killed a few tens of million people.

Seriously, is this anything more than Mad Libs for right-wing politics? “My brother Ricky and I walked down to the corner store to get some SOCIALISM! because my mother said she wanted to bake me SOCIALISM!!! for my birthday.”

Marxo-global-corporatism! That is rich, privately held companies in a system that abolishes such a thing. The workers control the means of production, but the owner controls the government. Oookay.

“There once was yet another shithouse-rat crazy Christian blogger.” [EXEUNT]

Friday, April 16, 2010

Barack Obama: Enemy Within
by Matt Barber

“[W]e will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.” – Ronald Wilson Reagan

“Our nation is chosen by God and commissioned by history to be a model to the world.” – George Walker Bush

“America does not presume to know what is best for everyone.” – Barack Hussein Obama (Insert deflating balloon effect here.)

We have a president loath to acknowledge American exceptionalism.

Exceptional Matt Barber

Indeed, the weight of the evidence suggests that our chief executive, through both word and deed and with malice aforethought, seeks to undermine – if not dismantle – that exceptionalism. At one time we properly called such activity anti-American, seditious or even – under certain circumstances – treasonous. Today we call it “progressive.”

*RING*

“Hello?”

“Morocco?”

“Yeah, that’s us.”

“It’s time for you to build air-conditioned catwalks across the desert.”

“HA, right.”

“This is . . Barack Obama.”

“WHOA! American Exceptionalism.”

” . . exactly.”

“Anything else?”

By now, you’ve likely heard of the strange incident that occurred on United’s flight 663, where Arab diplomat Mohammed al-Modadi got caught sneaking a cigarette and then apparently acted like an ass.

More than 160 passengers and crew were onboard when flight attendants noticed smoke coming from the bathroom and notified federal air marshals on the plane, government sources said.

When the marshals demanded to know what he was doing, the man identified himself as a diplomat from Qatar and responded, perhaps sarcastically, “I’m trying to light my shoes on fire.”

Predictably, the right wing are a little upset about it. Well, it’s a great chance to demonstrate their instincts relative to our national defense. They don’t just want the foreigner expelled, no: they want him tried and executed for treason.

Those hysterical emphases are Bandes’, not mine. Did we read that right — she wants him charged and prosecuted as a Soviet-style “enemy of state”? Yeah.

There is no “enemy of the state” law in the United States, thank you. If she’s merely speaking very generally and creepily and un-Americanly, then the only alternative is that she’s speaking of treason. I’d like to see Jillian try to prosecute someone from Qatar for that. Wikipedia:

Describing individuals in this way is sometimes a manifestation of political repression. For example, an authoritarian regime may purport to maintain national security by describing social or political dissidents as “enemies of the state”.

Ah, yes, all for “national security.” Strangely, Bandes is a champion of the tactic now. It was once the sort of paranoid repression the Soviet Union was reviled for, especially by American Conservatives like her.

If anyone bothers to remember, the Soviets’ political targets were commie-speak “enemies of the people” or “enemies of the workers”:

In particular, the term “enemy of the workers” was formalized in the Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code),[3] and similar articles in the codes of the other Soviet Republics.

At various times these terms were applied, in particular, to Tsar Nicholas II and the Imperial family, aristocrats, the bourgeoisie, clerics, business entrepreneurs, anarchists, kulaks, monarchists, Mensheviks, Esers, Bundists, Trotskyists, Bukharinists, the “old Bolsheviks”, the army and police, emigrants, saboteurs, wreckers (вредители, “vrediteli”), “social parasites” (тунеядцы, “tuneyadtsy”), Kavezhedists (people who administered and serviced the KVZhD (China Far East Railway), particularly the Russian population of Harbin, China), those considered bourgeois nationalists (notably Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian nationalists, Zionists, Basmachi), and members of certain ethnic groups (see Population transfer: Soviet Union).

An enemy of the people could be imprisoned, expelled or executed, and lose their property to confiscation.

You’ve gotta be impressed that Jillian also blew right past any pretense of a legal inquiry, forget it: “authorities should assume malintent, and immediately prosecute him as an enemy of state.” That’s exactly how it used to work.

. . he attacked our beloved country. We’re victims now, the state needs to act, blah blah, we get it.

This is the latest indication that the Pakistanis have been hosting Al Qaeda all along. As soon as their government decided instead to fight them, suddenly *poof* they’re everywhere.

Sources: U.S.-born al-Qaida spokesman caught
Gadahn, 31, reportedly held in Pakistan; $1 million reward on his head

KARACHI, Pakistan – Adam Yahiye Gadahn, a U.S.-born spokesman for al-Qaida, has been captured in Pakistan, government sources said Sunday.

Gadahn was arrested in recent days, two officers who took part in the operation told The Associated Press. A senior government official also confirmed the arrest. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

An intelligence source confirmed the report to NBC News, adding that Gadahn was detained in Sohrab Goth, a suburb of Karachi, and was later moved to the capital Islamabad.

The arrest is a major victory in the U.S.-led battle against al-Qaida and will be taken as a sign that Pakistan is cooperating more fully with Washington. It follows the recent detentions of several Afghan Taliban commanders in Karachi . .

A U.S. court charged Gadahn with treason in 2006, making him the first American to face such a charge in more than 50 years. He could face the death penalty if convicted. He was also charged with two counts of providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Gadahn, 31, grew up on a goat farm in Riverside County, Calif., and converted to Islam at a mosque in nearby Orange County . .

Psychologically, this will be a bit of a blow to the wingnuts. If only the Bush Administration had pulled this off, catching the treasonous terrorist Muslim moonbat. Their reactions will have to be muted, and then they’ll have to work to disconnect Obama from it somehow . .

CORRECTION: The militant is apparently not Gadahn as was previously reported everywhere:

Now, CBS News’ Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad writes that earlier reports the detained individual was Gadahn proved false. According to a Pakistan security official who spoke with CBS News on condition of anonymity, the arrested individual is in fact “a Taliban militant leader who is known as Abu Yahya.”

Website Dawn.com had further reported that Abu Yahya and Gadahn were the same person but were also incorrect. Too bad, woulda been good news.

[...also see Crooks and Liars, Think Progress, TPM, and Salon]

I had the post, then that damn virus acted up and I lost it, then Newsmax deleted it because it’s violently insane, then I manged to skulk around the internet and recover it.

John L. Perry tackles his ‘Obama problem’ by ignoring an entire third branch of government uniquely charged with figuring out whether goings-on are ‘unconstitutional’. He merely calls out a massive military coup. What an intelligent, loyal American. What a great Conservative.

Obama Risks a Domestic Military ‘Intervention’
September 29, 2009 | John L. Perry

There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the “Obama problem.” Don’t dismiss it as unrealistic.

America isn’t the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn’t mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it. So, view the following through military eyes:

-Officers swear to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Unlike enlisted personnel, they do not swear to “obey the orders of the president of the United States.”

-Top military officers can see the Constitution they are sworn to defend being trampled as American institutions and enterprises are nationalized.

-They can see that Americans are increasingly alarmed that this nation, under President Barack Obama, may not even be recognizable as America by the 2012 election, in which he will surely seek continuation in office.

-They can see that the economy — ravaged by deficits, taxes, unemployment, and impending inflation — is financially reliant on foreign lender governments.

-They can see this president waging undeclared war on the intelligence community, without whose rigorous and independent functions the armed services are rendered blind in an ever-more hostile world overseas and at home.

-They can see the dismantling of defenses against missiles targeted at this nation by avowed enemies, even as America’s troop strength is allowed to sag.

-They can see the horror of major warfare erupting simultaneously in two, and possibly three, far-flung theaters before America can react in time.

-They can see the nation’s safety and their own military establishments and honor placed in jeopardy as never before.

So, if you are one of those observant military professionals, what do you do?

Wait until this president bungles into losing the war in Afghanistan, and Pakistan’s arsenal of nuclear bombs falls into the hands of militant Islam?

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